I would have just gone for jewelry instead of roasted duck.要是我就會去買珠寶 而不是烤鴨

instead of代替；而不是 ...

I made this cake specially, with brown sugar instead of white.

我特別地以紅糖代替白糖做了這個蛋糕。

I gave him advice instead of money.

我給了他忠告，而不是錢。

Yeah, it's a decent amount of money.那是很大一筆錢

amount of money金額

By any yardstick, that's a large amount of money.

用任何標(biāo)準(zhǔn)衡量，那都是巨大的金額。

I try to stay away from fungus.我想遠(yuǎn)離真菌

stay away from離 ... 遠(yuǎn)點(diǎn)； 躲避 ...

Why did you stay away from school?

你為什么缺課?

Surly the most sensible thing would be to stay away from the case.

肯定地說，最合理的做法就是遠(yuǎn)離這個箱子。